While viewing the collection in the MacKnight Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Lowell Historical Board member Lew Karabatsos noticed that one of the paintings was done by an artist from Lowell, E. Newell Marshall.
Neither Lew nor other Lowell history enthusiasts he asked had heard of this artist.
Research turned up the information presented below.
It is at best, a brief biographic outline, but contains interesting names and events of the history of Lowell during that period.
The MacKnight Room at the Gardner Museum.
The Parrot is just to the left of the doorway.
This painting was purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the gallery Doll & Richards in Boston for $150 on December 11, 1916. This purchase price would be equivalent to about $4,300 in 2024 dollars.
E. Newell Marshall orientalist study drawing of a bedouin
Lowell Sun, May 17, 1890
Boston Daily Globe, May 23, 1890
Lowell Sun, May 24,1890
Boston Daily Globe, May 29, 1890
Lowell Sun, May 31, 1890
Lowell Sun, May 31, 1890
Lowell Sun, June 28,1890
Lowell Sun, June 19, 1894
Lowell Sun, March 4, 1895
Lowell Sun, March 6, 1895
Lowell Sun, February 17, 1909
Link to the whole volume -
Gallery exhibits in London -
